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Classics Illustrated No. 144 The First Men in the Moon Comic

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Pat

Sci Fi

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2020

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What people more that 100 years ago thought about what they would find on the Moon.
Wells is believable in his detials, even the ones he invents. Great story.

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018

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A fabulous science fantasy you can still enjoy today. H.G. Wells at his best. Imaginative with lasting influence on sci fi.

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2014

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Claiming the moon for England

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2020

Wonderfully campy tale of two Victorian gentlemen - a businessman and an eccentric scientist - traipsing around the moon in the knickerbockers and tweed suits. It turns out that the moon is teeming with life, and has an atmosphere they can breathe, and they encounter a race of intelligent beings living deep underground. In a demonstration of how human nature never changes, the businessman talks about bringing an army to the moon, conquering the moon people, and taking all that they have.

The book has one of the most imaginative descriptions I've read of an alien race - fascinating beings somewhat like insects. I read it mainly because I remember the 1964 movie, which I loved. I actually prefer the movie story line, which is slightly different, but the book was still an enjoyable read.

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THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON by H. G. Wells

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2007

The book is over a hundred years old, so you'll forgive a few spoilers. There are actually two related stories here:

First, there's Mr. Bedford, who has no scientific training and mooches a ride to the moon with Mr. Cavor, where he plots all his business ideas and bludgeons scores of moon people to death with a solid gold crowbar. He goes home, a stupid little kid accidentally flies off in the Cavorite sphere, and that's that. Good times. Convenient how he, against the extremely long odds mentioned by the narrator, not only gets back to earth, but back to England.

Next, there's Mr. Cavor, who gets left on the moon more or less out of necessity, and perhaps by his own choice. The Selenites track him down, and begin to communicate with him. How inconsiderate of Mr. Cavor to make them all learn English instead of him learning their language, especially since they only have one language globally. Here we get into the book's social commentary, which Wells was always big on but which posterity has forgotten in favor of his science fiction elements. Is it truly by accident that Cavor mentions that he's the only way humans can get back to the moon, and that he fails to send earth his formula for Cavorite? Or is he conveniently trying to keep the indigenous peoples from being trampled down by the earth's world powers? Plus we have the Selenites' interesting social structure, like communism, to the extreme.

Reading this book for the first time in the twenty-first century, one's thoughts go like this: "Hey, Wells made some pretty decent predictions about helium and the moon...well, except for the moon plants...and the giant moon cows...and the moon ant people. Never mind."

Wells was a great writer, though, and this story is engaging and, early on, humorous. Seems like he was trying to outdo Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel. The First Men in the Moon is over the top in this day and age, maybe, but in 1900 nobody knew any better. Well done, sir.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2015

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I have done more reading on my Kindle App then I ever did in my hard copy life.
A chance to read the classics, conveniently across my devices.
This book was a "put down and pick up" story. Always keen to carry on reading.
The story was complete (unlike the Jules Verne trick of apparently rushing to finish). A justified conclusion, but leaving a faintest possibility of things changing.
There were several thought provoking elements to the story - I don't know if this is a feature of other books by the same author.
It has left me keen to start reading his other books.

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Paul Wheeler

Scifi at its most historically interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2015

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I love Wells style of writing. This is a great story. I was very interested to read what was the popular opinion on the moon in the Victorian/Edwardian era.

gary rooke

Out of this world

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2015

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Liked the simple way this story is told does not need too much thought and is good for the imaginative and enquiring mind

haltonpoppy

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2017

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enjoyable tale